31st May 2021
India - ‘Dead’ Man Returns Home a Week After His Funeral
By India.com
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Rajsamand: To the utter surprise and shock of his family, a 40-year-old man presumed dead showed up at his residence, a week after they had performed a funeral mistakenly identifying a decomposed corpse as his body. It all started after state-run RK Hospital in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand declared the body of a man named Goverdhan Prajapat, who was under treatment at the hospital, as unidentified and later Omkar Lal Gadulia’s relatives wrongly took possession of that body. Also Read - Video of Young Girl Brutally Tortured Goes Viral, Assam Police Releases Images of Wanted Culprits
Notably, Gadulia, a liquor addict, had gone to Udaipur without informing his family on May 11. He was admitted to a hospital owing to some liver-related problem. Gadulia’s family was living with his brother after the coronavirus-induced lockdown. On the same day, Prajapat was taken from Mohi area to the RK Hospital by an ambulance service who died during treatment.
”We had got a letter from the hospital authorities that a body was lying unclaimed at the mortuary for three days. We then circulated photographs of the deceased man on various fronts to identify the body”, Kankroli police station SHO Yogendra Vyas told PTI. Over a dozen people came to the hospital on May 15 to identify the body. Police were informed about it and the family members gave in writing to hand over the body to them without conducting any post-mortem.
The family members wrongly identified the body to be that of Gadulia going by a similar scar on his right hand and appearance, and the police handed over the body without conducting any post-mortem and DNA test. The body was identified by the family members. DNA testing and post-mortem by a medical board are conducted when the body is unidentified following which the body is usually handed over to the municipality for cremation, Vyas said.
The body was taken away and the final rites were performed on May 15 itself. However, Gadulia returned home on May 23 and was shocked to learn that he was believed dead.
Later, the police launched an investigation and identified the body which Gadulia’s family had cremated as that of Goverdhan Prajapat. Police were nowhere at fault in this case. The body was declared unidentified by the hospital authorities, Vyas said.
Meanwhile, the hospital authorities admitted that the whole incident was a goof-up on part of the nursing and mortuary staff. There was a huge patient load. The patient was admitted to the hospital through 108 ambulance service. The incident took place due to lack of coordination between the nursing and mortuary staff. Appropriate action will be taken in the matter, Principal Medical Officer of RK Hospital, Lalit Purohit said.
(With PTI inputs)
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